A 74-year-old woman from Andhra Pradesh might have become the oldest ever to give birth after delivering twin girls on Thursday. The woman, Erramatti Mangayamma was able to conceive through IVF and delivered the twin girls via cesarean section in a private hospital in Guntur. According to the Times of India report, Mangayamma had married […]

Receiving fluids intravenously is now a common enough therapeutic tool. But the practice’s origin can be traced back to man’s effort to defeat the bacteria responsible for cholera. Back in 1831, a particularly bad strain of cholera broke out from the banks of the Ganges in India and spread rapidly to Iran, Russia and China […]